How the U.S. Department of Justice’s COPS review of the Spokane Police Department’s Use of Force practices misses the mark.
By Tim Connor
Friday afternoon, as I was midway through reading the DOJ Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) report released earlier in the day, I flashed on a memorably funny line from a William Least Heat Moon article about beer. After he and a companion had traveled far and wide to sample the best of American micro-brews, the drinking partner takes a swig from a store-bought bottle.
Spokane’s new police oversight commission is finally seated, and launches its first key challenge to the City’s police department.
Tim Connor
As of this morning, it’s actually been 616 days since Spokane voters approved Proposition 1, an amendment to the city charter that was supposed to require independent investigations of citizen complaints against police officers. Continue reading 615 days, Plus One→
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